Cartesian Doubt
Cognito il Sum
Originally posted by Philosophía
If it would have been Spiderman (ding!), he too would have been portrayed faster than Thor. I know, and you know it. You just like to have a narrow point of view because you don't like the truth. You really think the writers go all "I've read all of Thor's history and HERE. In 1976! A showing/statement I can finally misinterpret as meaning Thor is very fast!". No, they don't. "How is Thor's speed usually portrayed ?" or "I remember Wolverine dancing around the Hulk, and Thor doesn't seem to have a big speed advantage over him" is most likely. But you and a few others just can't seem to understand this, for obvious reasons and go all "WAAAAH WOST COMIC EVA!!". Like I said, I'd like to think you're just acting at this point.
Long convoluted rhetorical rants aside, your right.
A characters physical portrayal is based solely on the subjective interpretations of the writer, i.e. what the writer thinks the character is capable of, which this is usually based on the perspectives of the status quo, . There is no meta paradigm/structure that the characters must comply with.
You may argue that the characters abilities should be based on their mean performances, or how "Most" fans regard them, but this isn't true. Characters power levels are dependent on the writers interpretation, and this fluctuates.
Arguing over this, is comparable to arguing over which ice cream is better, in the end some will never be convinced that banana is worse than chocolate.